How to back up your iCloud contacts and calendar data

iCloud is a great service for syncing information across your Mac and iOS devices, including calendars and contacts. But things happen, and sometimes services fail. If you are ever worried about data loss, or just being unable to reach or update your iCloud calendars or contacts, you can back them up by downloading them to your Mac from iCloud.com.

How to back up your Contacts data from iCloud

Select all of the contacts you want to save. This can be accomplished either by holding down the Command key on your keyboard and click the contacts, or (especially if you want to select all of them) clicking on one contact, holding Shift, then clicking the bottom of the list of contacts you want to select.

Click the gear icon.

Click Export vCard.

Click Cancel if you don't want to import that vCard into Contacts on your Mac right away.

Questions

If you have any questions about backing up your Calendar and Contact data from iCloud, let us know in the comments.